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semiology|siːmɪˈɒlədʒɪ, sɛmɪ-|
Also 7 erron. semæology, 9– semeiology |siːmaɪ-|.
[f. Gr. σηµεῖο-ν sign + -logy. Cf. F. séméiologie (1762), in Dicts. sémiologie (in sense 2).]
†1. Sign language. Obs.
[1641Wilkins Mercury ii. (1694) 14 The particular ways of discoursing were before intimated to be threefold{ddd}3. By Signs or Gestures. According to which variety, there are also different ways of Secrecy{ddd}3. Semæologia.] 1694Motteux Urquhart's Rabelais Pref. 98 These ways of signifying our Thoughts by Gestures, called by the Learned Bishop Wilkins Semæology, are almost of infinite Variety.
2. The branch of medical science which is concerned with symptoms.
1839Spillan tr. Schills' Outl. Pathol. Semeiology 1 Semeiology constitutes the doctrine of the relations in which the phenomena in the human system stand with respect to the vital state which causes them. 1855Dunglison Med. Lex., Semeiology,..Semiology. 1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 8 The knowledge of these signs constitutes semeiology or symptomatology. 1887Homœopathic World 1 Nov. 496 At first glance, the semiology suggested cancer.
3. The branch of science concerned with the study of linguistic signs and symbols. Also in extended use.
[1916F. de Saussure Cours de Linguistique Générale iii. 34 On peut donc concevoir une science qui étudie la vie des signes au sein de la vie sociale; elle formerait une partie de la psychologie sociale, et par conséquent de la psychologie générale; nous le nommerons sémiologie (du grec sēmeîon ‘signe’).] 1923Ogden & Richards Meaning of Meaning i. 8 The initial recognition of a general science of signs, ‘semiology’, of which linguistic would be a branch, was a very notable attempt in the right direction. 1932W. L. Graff Lang. & Languages 72 Semeiology, the science of signs and symbols, is only in its infancy. 1947Word III. 29 [According to de Saussure] there is a science of semiology, hitherto unrecognized... This semiology is differentiated by definition from semantics. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Nov. 669/2 Joyce has become an inexhaustible hunting ground for hermeneutical exegesists to whom semeiology..is a science beside which plain criticism offers no excitements. 1967Economist 14 Oct. 156/2 The tired businessman who refreshes himself with courses like ‘Structural Linguistics, Semiology and Criticism’. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 21 July 833/1 He has written..about literature and about the semiology of the cinema. 1976T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideology v. 166 Literature must indeed be re-situated within the field of general cultural production; but each mode of such production demands a semiology of its own.
Hence semiˈologist.
1973D. Osmond-Smith tr. Bettelini's Lang. & Technique of Film i. 3 There exists a certain confusion in the use of terms recently coined by semiologists. 1975Listener 20 Mar. 367/3 Though the ‘synchronic’ approach of the semiologists is for the moment more fashionable, it is impossible not to be interested in the history of social myths. 1979Dædalus Summer 111 It has proved much more elusive to disclose the overall intention underlying their visual assembly in any way that an anthropologist or semiologist would recognize as coherent. |